Posts by PendantWhistle1

So, today (this morning, in fact) me, my brother, and my dad were helping my fiancee shoot a short film. The story in the short film is that we kidnap my brother, blindfold him, tie his hands, and stuff him in my car, then drive to my house, take him inside, and unveil his surprise birthday party. What fun!

So, we were shooting the scene of us taking him inside this morning, blindfolded and hands tied. For most of the shoot, we my fiancee was standing on the other side of the street, shooting her video of us pulling in, getting him out of the car, and taking him inside. Pretty easy to tell that it was for a film at that point.

That is, until my fiance needed to get a shot through our glass door. She and the camera were inside, and me and my dad dragged my brother toward the door.

At that exact moment, a woman in a minivan drove by, staring us down the whole time. It was in that moment that we realized we fucked up.

We finished filming and went back inside, then sat around for the cops to arrive, all of us assuming she called them.

After about 30 minutes, we figured that they weren't going to come, and my fiancee, my brother, and I all went to Sonic to get drinks and breakfast.

As we rounded the corner back to my house, we saw blue flashing lights coming from in front of my house. We pull in and see my dad laughing his ass off talking to the police officer.

We got out and walked up to the officer, who decided that the problem was probably fine, since all of us (including the "kidnapping victim") were carrying drinks and laughing. He called off his backup and took pictures of our IDs and my fiancee's university ID, and that was the end of that.

TL;DR: We fake-kidnapped my brother for a film class and got the cops called on us.

We were goofing around and pretended to stuff my wife into the trunk of my sedan. This is like, late high school (So you know only the BEST of judgement). The joke we thought, was that since my car was beat to hell it would sell the story.

So we get her in the trunk, car pulls by, lkke 3 bros hop out and start grilling us, all 3 of us bust out laughing and let them know we were screwing around.

For the next 2 weeks, suddenly the police patrolled FAR more than they have the entire year.

Me too! I've just started playing with cameras last year. I haven't made any short films with a plot yet. I've shot random things and threw it into Premiere and tried to make it look good. 2 made so far!

I'm pretty new so I can't offer solid advice but whenever you have time, just shoot random things. Any experience is better than no experience.

Something similar happened about 10 years ago shooting some short-movie thing for a friend who was in college for film production.

I was playing the bad guy, who carjacks someone, and then speeds away. We did probably 10 takes of the same scene from different angles so they could be edited together. Some guy came out from his town-house and said he was calling the cops if we didn't explain what was going on, he kept saying it was "still suspicious" so he was still going to call them even after we explained what we were doing.Finally we were like, IF THIS WAS A REAL CAR JACKING WE WOULDN'T BE DOING IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN and the guy finally went back inside.

aw man makes me kinda sad the cops took that long to get there :(((( fuck cops. i bet if that lady had called and said the kid was smoking weed they would have been there instantly. lol. i don't mean to sound irrelevant asf but it is true! at least in my city. like im genuinely sad right now thinking that cops took 30 minutes to arrive to a call about a child being kidnapped. maybe i just have this all wrong though. maybe you're city is a lot different,, maybe the police station is far away! lol idk. a funny story though! a good read.